Our port to the Pixel 11 series was nearly complete after around a week of the devices being launched. It had to be cancelled due to lack of MTE support. Android 17 QPR2 has added MTE support for the Pixel 11 series and we've confirmed it works with GrapheneOS with our QPR2 port.
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@drfoklghdklifgmodfhgvbkladnf We think it wasn't originally going to have MTE since they wanted to use their own custom cores and cache but didn't want to bother with it. They cancelled that and used standard cores and cache but never implemented MTE. That's based on news coverage of leaks which showed MTE was being dropped to cut costs and complexity along with leaks from Googlers saying the same thing. It's a major factor in why we thought it wasn't present rather than just gone from firmware.
@GrapheneOS You mentioned performance issues with MTE on Pixel 11 in one of your previous posts. Have these issues been resolved?
@Scorpion8741 It performs fine. It's not great but it's still a CPU upgrade over the Pixel 10. It doesn't appear to be higher overhead than it was on the Pixel 10 and even if it's a bit higher overhead, the slightly faster CPU papers over it.
Our port to Android 17 QPR2 is nearly complete. Pixel 11 support can be added after we launch it for the other devices. Completing Signature 27 support is our main priority after QPR2 but we essentially finished Pixel 11 support a long time ago so we can ship that after QPR2 too.
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That's great news!
@GrapheneOS that is good news. i was worried that people who bought the 11 series were going to be out of luck. it is a little unsettling that google thought it was cool to ship the device with mte disabled (i assume this was a "we're too cheap/lazy to implement it in fw, but it's present in hardware")